TREK 100 years from now

[RobertScorpio]

If our society survives this century, will the TV show STAR TREK(s) even be remembered. Or, like the old radio-shows of the 40s-50s (which I still listen to on my Sirius) will it be a distant memory for only but a few people??

 

[C.E. Evans]

People will be talking about Trek in the 23rd-Century and be amazed by how much they got wrong but also how much they got right, IMO.

James T. Kirk will be remembered along the lines of Odysseus...

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

RobertScorpio said:
If our society survives this century, will the TV show STAR TREK(s) even be remembered.

No.

Or, like the old radio-shows of the 40s-50s (which I still listen to on my Sirius) will it be a distant memory for only but a few people??

Possibly some academic interest.

 

[Broccoli]

Hell...it's lasted this long. Unless the new movie completely tanks and calls off any re-birth for the franchise, I can see it being remembered in 100 years. Assuming, of course, we don't kill each other first.

 

[Jack Bauer]

I'm not sure it will survive the Canon Wars.

 

[Tralah]

As long as some sort of TV/screen type viewing remains a popular form of entertainment, Star Trek will probably always find a niche with some people. Take a look at Nick at Night or the TVland channel where popular old shows are rerun.

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

Hell...it's lasted this long.

A little over forty years.

A century is a very long time, and as each year passes culture and tastes change more quickly.

 

[TigerOfDarkness]

Well, some people still watch productions of Gilbert and Sullivan's light operettas from the nineteenth centuary, but they aren't mainstream entertainment. So I guess that Trek may still appeal to a minority in 100 years.

 

[santa biggles]

The question becomes whether Trek — or any TV, for that matter — will somehow achieve that lofty status of "classic," where it's regarded by succeeding generations as something worthy of continued performance and study.

Suddenly the cliché "It ain't Shakespeare!" takes on new meaning, huh?

 

[James Wright]

I have to agree with Broccoli!
We're a minority!? SINCE WHEN!?
JDW

 

[santa biggles]

Since always?

 

[DBR]

James T. Kirk will be remembered along the lines of Odysseus...

I like that.

 

[Bill Morris]

Let's see. If the first of an unbroken line of 7-year series starts in 2009 or 2010, the 25th Trek series should be running then, and of course there will be interest in all the previous series, presumably remastered for the popular medium of the time.

Or Trek will be done live as stage plays, maybe with holographic sets or whatever can change instantly and work on stage.

 

[Jack Bauer]

Well the world may end in 2012 so Star Trek is irrelevant. Resistence is futile!

 

[Broccoli]

I'm not sure it will survive the Canon Wars.

Eh...those ain't canon.

 

[kguru]

I think that Star Trek will be known in 100 years. It probably will be viewed in some kind of interactive 3D format rather than on TV or DVD. Star Trek has influence the world a lot more than one may realize over the past 40 years. It might not be super popular, but I think most of the population in 100 years would still know of it and would have seen at least a little of it.

 

[Brent]

it would be great to watch Star Trek while sitting on my spaceship at warp speed

 

[USS Excelsior]

They will probably run Star Trek on their holodecks.

 

[Starbreaker]

Of course, but it will be forbidden to talk about in the year 3000

 

[Jack Bauer]

They will probably run Star Trek on their holodecks.

No, they'll just download it right into your brain.